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13 Cards in this Set
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Sir Walter Raleigh (p. 26)
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-Led an expedition that explored the Outer Banks of North Carolina in 1584.
-After his return to England for supplies he returned to find the village of Ralegh abandoned and pillaged. |
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Jamestown (p. 27)
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-The frist settlement 40 miles inland (in-order to hide from the Spaniards) river they called the 'James' and they called the colony Jamestown.
-They chose a river with a north west bend hoping to find a passage to Africa. |
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Chief Powhatan (p. 28)
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-was the charismatic chief of 30 Algonquian-speaking tribes in Eastern Virginia, making up the Powhatan Confederacy.
-Wanted to develop a trade and military relationship with the English, but with Jamestown near collapse the Indians helped the English navigate around the Chesapeake. |
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Captain John Smith (p. 29)
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-Leader of the Jamestown settlers was a solider of fortune with good leadership skills.
-Declared to those living in the failing colony "he that will not work shall not eat." -In 1609 he suffered a gunpowder burn and was abruptly send back to England. |
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the "starving time" (p. 29)
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-Winter of 1609-1610 when most colonists weakened by hunger, fell pray to disease. Relief party found 60 settlers still alive in 1610.
-Happened as a result of the sudden departure of their leader John Smith. |
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propriety colonies (p. 30)
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-Colonies established under a joint-stock company.
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John Winthrop (p. 33)
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-Puritan leader and Governor of the MA Bay Colony who resolved to use the colony as a refuge for persecuted Puritans and as an instrument of building a "wilderness Zion" in America.
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Roger Williams (p. 36)
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-Puritan deserter who felt a true church should have no ties to England began to vocalize against the church.
-Was banished from M.A. to England but instead with a few followers. After buying land from the Narragansett Indians he established the city of Providence (RI). |
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Anne Hutchinson (p. 36)
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-Puritan deserter who quarreled with Puritan leaders, was kicked out of MA, went to RI where she grew sick.
-Claimed that only 2 or 3 ministers actually preached the appropriate "covenant of grace." -MA judges called her "a woman not fit for our society." |
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Pequot War (p. 41)
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-MA settlers accused an Indian of murdering a colonist, Joined by their colonist allies in CT they set fire to the Indians tribes, as they ran out of their burning hut colonist shot them.
-The Pequot chief organized the survivors and attcked the English. -During the Pequot War of 1637 the colonists and their Narraganset allies killed hundreds of Pequots. -The Treaty of Hartford (1638) declared the Pequot Nation dissolved. |
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New Netherland (p. 41)
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-Dutch colony conquered by the English to become four new colonies, NY, NJ, PA, and Delaware.
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Iroquois League (p. 47)
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-AN alliance of the Iroquois tribes that used their strength to force Europeans to work with them in the fur trade and to wage war across what is today eastern North America.
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Quakers (p. 49)
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-Founded by George Fox in 1647.
-They rejected the use of formal sacraments and ministry, refused to take oaths and embraced pacifism. Fleeing persecution, they settled and established the colony of Pennsylvania. |
